Stopped reading with the first line, and I completely disagree that this should include video games. Ok, I lied, I kept reading, but I didn't really need to. The entire opening paragraph constantly uses the word 'physical.'

For me, sports are activities that require exertion and control of the muscles in your body to perform well. This can be running with a football or using the correct force on the curling stone or wrestling some other guy to the mat. Yes, there's is brain power at work here, but it all comes down to executing physically.

Games, on the other hand, are activities that force your brain to work, like chess and video games. Yes, you do have to put in some measure of physical movement to accomplish these things, but it's a less important factor than knowing what the right thing to do is.

Stopped reading with the first line, and I completely disagree that this should include video games. Ok, I lied, I kept reading, but I didn't really need to. The entire opening paragraph constantly uses the word 'physical.'

And the second paragraph reads:

Sport is generally recognised as activities which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition,[3] and other organisations such as the Council of Europe using definitions precluding activities without a physical element from classification as sports.[2] However, a number of competitive, but non-physical, activities claim recognition as mind sports. The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognises both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, and SportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports,[4][5] although limits the amount of mind games which can be admitted as sports.[1]

How can you cite a written encyclopedic explanation when unwilling to recognize and leverage the entirety of the article?

My problem with calling gaming a sport isn't so much the lack of physicality but more a problem with deeming it a sport simply because there's an aspect of competition. If that's all an activity needs to be viewed as a sport then thumb wars is a sport, basically any activity where there's a winner is a sport. I just think there're more things to be considered, you can't really draw a line with a simple description of a sport without certain activites being out of place which is why sporting organizations have to state which they recognise in the first place.

I personally don't count it as a sport.

Her hall is called Eljudnir,
her dish is Hunger,
her knife is Famine,
her slave is Lazy,
and Slothful is her woman servant.

It's what I consider an imaginary sport just like Golf,Nascar,Archery,hunting, while they share some similarities with Real sports they don't however force you to push your body to it's physical limits in order to win, so in my opinion pingpong is more of a sport than the ones I mentioned above.

But yeah real sports not only require one to have endurance/stamina but they also help one to increase their capabilities is those area's.